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Where did the name "Wagner" come from, in regard to the Russian mercenary group?
Wagner was an anti-semitic composer of music who wrote about the inferiority of Jews.
Wagner Mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhi, an anti-semite and neo-Nazi, admired Wagner's anti-semitism and hence the name:
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Wagner was anti-semitic.[1] Wagner's writings on Jews, including ‘Jewishness in Music’, corresponded to some existing anti-semitic trends of thought in Germany during the 19th century. The published essay attacks two Jewish composers and Jews in general.[2]
Wagner died long before the Nazis arose. Wagner's widow and heirs established direct political links with the Nazis. Their actions to belittle Jewish artists and involvement in anti-semetic organisations after 1914 helped prepare the ground for state-organised expulsion of Jewish artists after 1933.[3]
When Hitler came to power in the 1930s he liked Wagner's music and thought that it was something typically German. Wagner's ideas in Die Meistersinger von Nűrnberg about German art suited some of Hitler's thoughts."
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Wagner was an anti-semitic composer of music who wrote about the inferiority of Jews.
Wagner Mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhi, an anti-semite and neo-Nazi, admired Wagner's anti-semitism and hence the name:
"
Wagner was anti-semitic.[1] Wagner's writings on Jews, including ‘Jewishness in Music’, corresponded to some existing anti-semitic trends of thought in Germany during the 19th century. The published essay attacks two Jewish composers and Jews in general.[2]
Wagner died long before the Nazis arose. Wagner's widow and heirs established direct political links with the Nazis. Their actions to belittle Jewish artists and involvement in anti-semetic organisations after 1914 helped prepare the ground for state-organised expulsion of Jewish artists after 1933.[3]
When Hitler came to power in the 1930s he liked Wagner's music and thought that it was something typically German. Wagner's ideas in Die Meistersinger von Nűrnberg about German art suited some of Hitler's thoughts."
